Vacation Continued

Meet the two newest (and cutest) members of the Red Hat Society: La and Grandpa Dave.

By the way, both of my grandmothers (Fern and Lois) are real, actual members of this cult club.



On Monday, we left the grand town of Neillsville and headed east to Nasonville (what's with all these "villes" up in these parts?) to pick up some fresh-from-the-trough cheese curds. And my oh my. There aint nothin' like a fistful of fresh, squeaky Wisconsin cheese curds. NOTHING I SAY. Just try one. You will instantly fall head-over-heels in love. And if you don't, then you're in dire need of a tastebud transplant.

Once we purchased the curds (and pigged out for a few minutes in the parking lot of the dairy factory) we were back on the road to Milwaukee! ... er, sort of. We got a little lost since we normally don't go 20 minutes out of the way for curds, and we had to make one pit-stop on the side of the highway so that La could "puke" ... Although she didn't actually puke. She just thought she had to ... She ended up spitting a few times in the reeds and then got back in the car. How easy it is to overdo it on the curds! Poor La. She hasn't yet figured out her curd limit.

Once La's tummy had settled, she and aunt M chilled out in their shades and shared my iPod to listen to La's favorite tunes (which include the Killers' version of "Romeo and Juliet" and The Moldy Peaches "Anyone Else But You"). She's one cool chick, that La.



The next night, a pretty severe storm hit Milwaukee and we got to see it roll in. We don't really know what that glowing thing is in the middle of the photo. It could be a raindrop caught by the flash in midair. But, I think it's probably an extension of the glare off of my dad's rad shoes.



Last night, "the girls" went to a fancy restaurant called Lake Park Bistro, and La was a very good girl. The restaurant is built on top of a hill overlooking Lake Michigan. The view is quite nice, and the food is amazing. This is not the type of restaurant where you flag one of your servers down and have them snap a photo. So, I told La to take a picture of us. She did a pretty good job too! Such a cute little photographer.



La got a little antsy in the restaurant, so we took a little stroll (which entailed walking down about 500 stairs in high heels) to the lake and she snapped this shot of me.



So, we've basically just been hanging out, taking it easy and living the life this week. This morning La and I went to get the paper in the golf cart. We went up and down the half-mile driveway 3 times, but alas, forgot to get the paper. Shoot. (but seriously, who reads the paper anyway? Not when there's cnn.com!)



Then we went shopping in Cedarburg, which is just the quaintest little town. La got sick of it pretty quickly. She had a serious case of "the shopping blues" when we got to the stationery store.



But then we came back to the homestead and hit the pool, which cheered her right up.



I must be going now. Time for dinner! Salmon burgers. Yum.